Hulse. Amongst the best tennis-players that Eton ever sent up to
Windsor, where he always was. As a poet he distinguished himself
greatly, by winning one of the medals given by Sir John Dalrymple. His
~82~~ exercise on this occasion was the subject of much praise to Doctor
Forster, then master, and of much envy to his contemporaries in the
sixth form, who said it was given to him because he was head boy.
These were his arts; besides which he had as many tricks as any boy ever
had. He had nothing when praepositer, and of course ruling under boys, of
dignity about him, or of what might enforce his authority. When he ought
to have been angry, some monkey trick always came across him, and he
would make a serious complaint against a little boy, in a hop, step, and
a jump.
Montague. Having a great predecessor before him under the appellation of
"_Mad Montague_" had always a consolatory comparison in this way in his
favor. In truth, at times he wanted it, for he was what has been termed
a genius: but he was likewise so in talent. He was an admirable poet,
and had a neatness of expression seldom discoverable at such early
years. In proof, may be brought a line from a Latin poem on Cricket:
"_Clavigeri fallit verbera--virga cadit_."
And another on scraping a man down at the _Robin Hood_:
"_Radit arenosam pes inimicus humum_.
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